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Too Many People Heating Up the Planet

The Trump Administration released the Fourth National Climate Assessment on Friday November 23, which concluded: “time is running out” to correct a coming climate catastrophe. Make no mistake about it, Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Dec 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Population

Where do you fit into the 7 billion people on Earth?

Have you ever found yourself wondering how many people there are on Earth? Or perhaps you are curious as to what your birth date may signify in the grand scheme Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Nov 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

Group Warns Food Supply Won’t Meet Future Demand Without Productivity Gains

The 2018 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Index, put together by the Global Harvest Initiative, continues to highlight that food production is not growing fast enough to sustainably feed the world Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Oct 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

How will 9 billion or 10 billion people eat without destroying the environment?

 The human population has reached 7.6 billion and could number 9 billion or 10 billion by midcentury. All those people will need to eat. A sobering report published Wednesday in Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Oct 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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Global hunger increasing, UN warns

The number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years, after years of decline, a UN report suggests. According to the analysis, 821 million people globally Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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Earth Overshoot Day Offers Sustainability Lessons

August 1 will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the day that worldwide humanity will, in only seven months, have taken more resources from the Earth than can be replenished within a Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

Global Population Growth Ceased In 1988…Population Has Only Grown Older Since Then

The world stopped growing about 1988… and has only grown older since. Global births, per five year periods, according to the UN. Births and UN medium and low variant estimates Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

How will Earth feed 9 billion people by 2050?

Over 795 million people in the world are hungry, and by 2050 there will be an additional 2 billion people to feed. Is the Earth able to provide enough food Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Population

Dealing With The Elephant In The Room: Overpopulation

Worldwide, three new humans are born every second. Every day, 225,000 more mouths are added to the global dinner table. That adds up to 80 million new people per year Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Population

The Population Bomb Has Been Defused

Some of the most spectacularly wrong predictions in history have been made by those who claim that overpopulation is going to swamp the planet. Thomas Malthus, a British economist writing Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

Half the world’s population reaching below replacement fertility

According to the most recent UN estimates (United Nations 2017), almost one half of the world’s population lives in countries with below replacement fertility (BRF), i.e. with a total fertility Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Dec 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

What’s the Ideal Number of Humans on Earth?

Earth might be looking a little worse for wear, after the last four-hundred years of reckless wide-scale resource extraction, but to its credit it hasn’t collapsed entirely. Despite our best Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Dec 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
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Failure to address Africa’s rising population is not an option

Africa will dominate global population growth in the 21st century. Almost 1bn people, or 13 per cent of the world’s population, live in sub-Saharan Africa today. That number will more Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Jul 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
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Land is scarce. Or just a civilization myth!

You can Google this one. Just the way I did. Keywords ‘World Population’. The world population as of October 2016 is estimated at 7.4 billion. And the UN estimates it Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Nov 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Population

The end of the “population problem”? Another Seneca cliff in our future

If the demographic projections by the United Nations will turn out to be true, the world population should reach over 11 billion people by 2100 . Some think that it Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Jun 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple

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